Marcus Trescothick
Marcus Edward Trescothick
Born: 25 December 1975, Keynsham, Somerset
Major Teams: Somerset, England.
Known As: Marcus Trescothick
Batting Style: Left Hand Bat
Bowling Style: Right Arm Medium
Test Debut: England v West Indies at Manchester, 3rd Test, 2000
Latest Test: England v Australia at Brisbane, 1st Test, 2002/03
ODI Debut: England v Zimbabwe at The Oval, NatWest Series, 2000
Latest ODI: England v India at Colombo (RPS), ICC Champions Trophy, 2002/03
First Class Debut: Somerset v Lancashire at Taunton, 1993
NBC Denis Compton Award 1996
NBC Denis Compton Award 1997
Career Statistics:
TESTS
(including 07/11/2002)
M I NO Runs HS Ave SR 100 50 Ct St
Batting & Fielding 27 51 4 2025 161 43.08 50.91 3 15 24 0
O M R W Ave BBI 5 10 SR Econ
Bowling 20 2 52 1 52.00 1-34 0 0 120.0 2.60
ONE-DAY INTERNATIONALS
(including 22/09/2002)
M I NO Runs HS Ave SR 100 50 Ct St
Batting & Fielding 46 46 1 1729 137 38.42 88.75 4 8 16 0
O M R W Ave BBI 4w 5w SR Econ
Bowling 7.4 0 45 2 22.50 2-7 0 0 23.0 5.86
FIRST-CLASS
(1993 - 2002/03; last updated 10/11/2002)
M I NO Runs HS Ave 100 50 Ct St
Batting & Fielding 141 239 11 7773 190 34.09 12 45 147 0
O M R W Ave BBI 5 10 SR Econ
Bowling 415.4 86 1438 36 39.94 4-36 0 0 69.2 3.45
LIST A LIMITED OVERS
(1993 - 2002/03; last updated 10/11/2002)
M I NO Runs HS Ave 100 50 Ct St
Batting & Fielding 183 172 16 5622 137 36.03 13 23 64 0
O R W Ave BBI 4w 5w SR Econ
Bowling 303 1462 55 26.58 4-50 1 0 33.0 4.82
- Explanations of First-Class and List A status courtesy of the ACS.
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Marcus Trescothick is a tall, burly left-handed opening bat and useful
right-arm medium pacer from the West Country. He hits the ball very hard,
and is a strong driver, but also adept at guiding the ball into the gaps, a
skill shown to advantage in the one-day game. Not the quickest between the
wickets, he is a good judge of a run, and a fine slip fielder. His technique
is simple, but effective. Based on a straight bat, and an upright stance, he
is adept at leaving dangerous deliveries early in his innings, rarely
chasing the ball as it leaves him, and is patient in awaiting the loose
delivery. A useful second-change medium pacer, he has a first-class
hat-trick to his name.
Trescothick showed much early promise, but when first called up to play
for Somerset at the age of 17 he had a dismal experience of first-class
cricket, scoring only 14 runs from his first six innings in 1993. Not
discouraged, he was given another opportunity the following season, and when
promoted to open he made a lasting impression, averaging over 48 in his
first full season with two centuries. He captained England Under-19 in 1994
against the touring Indians, making a century and a notable double hundred
in the representative matches. Further success left him with over 1000 runs
at Under-19 level, second only to John Crawley amongst English cricketers.
Despite such illustrious beginnings, Trescothick had to wait until he was
24 before attaining a full cap, serving a further apprenticeship in the
England A tour of New Zealand in 1998-99, where he struggled, and failed to
make the A squad the following winter. A strong domestic performance,
combined with injuries resulted in a call-up to the full England one-day
squad in 2000, an opportunity he grasped with both hands with a fine series
of performances in the NatWest Series against Zimbabwe and the West Indies.
Trescothick made an impressive Test debut, with a patient half-century
against the West Indies, and by the end of the series had established
himself as a reliable opening partner for Michael Atherton. He scored 190
runs in three matches, averaging a very healthy 47.5, and was an automatic
selection for the winter tours to Pakistan and Sri Lanka. Another
half-century followed at Lahore, but it wasn't until England visited Sri
Lanka at the start of 2001 that Trescothick hit his maiden Test century. In
the First Test at Galle he was the only England batsman to show any real
authority against the Sri Lankan attack as he made 122 and 57 in the second
innings, but he could not avert an innings defeat. Although he made little
impact on the following two Tests, England won them to clinch the series.
By the following summer, less than a year after his debut, Trescothick
was seen as an integral part of the England side. Centrally contracted for
the first time, he scored his first home Test hundred (again in a losing
cause) in the second innings of the second Test against Pakistan at Old
Trafford. Although he started the Ashes series with a duck, he ended it as
his side's second-highest run scorer (321 runs at 32.1) as England's batsmen
sought, often unsuccessfully, to find answers to Messrs. McGrath, Warne and
Gillespie. It was Warne who dismissed Trescothick in freakish circumstances
in the third Test at Trent Bridge. He had made 31 when he struck the spinner
firmly to leg but saw the ball rebound off the shin-pads of the close
fielder Matthew Hayden. Adam Gilchrist threw himself forward from behind the
stumps to scoop up a brilliant catch. To add to England's frustration, TV
replays showed the delivery to have been a no-ball, and a batting collapse
ensued.
It spoke volumes for Trescothick's emerging reputation that after Nasser
Hussain's finger was broken by Jason Gillespie in the first Test, there was
widespread speculation that he might be asked to stand in as captain. In the
event the selectors opted for the greater experience of Michael Atherton,
but there was no doubting Trescothick's future credentials. His chance duly
came that autumn in the fourth ODI against Zimbabwe in Bulawayo, when
Hussain decided not to risk a calf injury sustained in the previous game.
Trescothick's debut was impressive; he won the toss (Hussain had lost the
previous 12), scored a rapid 52 to give England a flying start, and the game
was won by 70 runs.
In Zimbabwe and in the one-day series which followed in India and New
Zealand, Trescothick's aggressive batting regularly put England into a
competitive position in the early overs. When he went on he could be
awesome; but for a staggering umpiring decision at Kolkata when he was on
121 he would almost certainly have won England the match, and his 95 off 80
balls at Mumbai set up the win that enabled England to square the series. He
began the Test series with a flourish (66, 46 and 99) in India, and
highlighted his New Zealand tour with 88 in the Wellington Test. Despite a
couple of dismissals in the 30s in New Zealand, he rightly emphasised his
determination not to be deflected from his natural - and immensely
entertaining - style of batsmanship.
Such determination rewarded him richly in the 2002 home series against
Sri Lanka, in which Trescothick's scores were 13, 76, 161, 81 and 23*. His
magnificent 161 at Edgbaston came off 232 balls - a fair clip for a Test
match - and set up a match-winning total for his team. In the NatWest Series
he twice passed 80 and scored a century in the classic final against India
at Lord's. His season was cruelly curtailed in July when, manifestly in the
form of his life, he had his thumb broken by a Graeme Hick drive whilst
captaining Somerset in the C&G quarter-final at Taunton. But on recovery he
quickly resumed normal service, with back-to-back half centuries in the
final Test against India and a hundred against Zimbabwe in the ICC Champions
Trophy. He also resumed an opening partnership with Michael Vaughan which is
the foundation of England's hopes of a winter Ashes upset. (Copyright
CricInfo October 2002)
Last Updated: Sunday, 10-Nov-2002 16:40:21 GMT
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